Channeled Anthro Alien Games

[Tae]

Upwork is all legit and there will be no problem with tax forms.

Legit it may be, but ethical, not so much. They scalp a ridiculous amount of fees and their whole model is to acquire lowballing global professionals. However, they also now require you to pay to even send your portfolio to a client, which is truly taking advantage of those people from 3rd world countries who depended on their income to come from places such as Upwork and might not have the ability to put in any overhead like I did. Since they already take 25%+ I consider this to be absolutely insane that they nickel and dime just for someone to submit a job or to apply to a job.



They're basically bottom feeders getting rich off the hard work of skilled professionals. Like I pay less than $100 a year for my web hosting and domain names and all that, and working off of Upwork, if many clients paid a total of $5000 for my services, I end up only getting $4000–that chunk is WAY more than the cost of self-hosting. Yeah, if you do a large job for one client they reduce their cut to like, %20 and eventually as low as 10% with that client only, but the sort of jobs I did never let me get that percentage. Nothing about their business model is STO, anyway. I just don't have any good ideas for how to create an improved job board for freelancers and create it, so I guess it's not what I'm meant to do.

As a freelancer who worked on Upwork for a few years, I would not recommend them to anyone who wants to freelance. They're pretty scummy. I'm glad you found a good artist though. Some of them are great. Obviously I worked through Upwork and I'm all right at what I do (fantasy maps in case you end up needing some 2D map work, I'd be happy to work something out to help you). I now work independently off my own portfolio site and it's definitely better for me. Right now I'm working on learning to build 3D worlds, I have World Creator and that allows me to theoretically create an entire 3D world plane to play in. Once I've done a couple of personal projects I would feel more confident using it but willing to work with you if you end up needing a world builder. It's no secret of course, I'm not a furry. It's creating tiny worlds that's my passion. Maybe in the future there will be an intersection; right now I know you're looking to do short quick funny games and I tend to end up working for RPGs.

I know one game making furry guy, and he gets most of his business from Fur Affinity, actually.

That all said it does offer an easy way to connect. Like I said, I am glad you found a decent artist. The models look decent for the quick turnaround.